While COVID-19 continues to cause fear, isolation, and illness around the world, we are also witnessing ways in which God is at work in the midst of the chaos, and we continue calling on him to calm the storm! You Helped Us Prepare Words of Hope has always cared about making the gospel accessible to people, in a variety of formats and in many different languages. Over the years your donations have sent packages of devotionals to prisons where they …
Devotionals for Uganda
Words of Hope’s daily devotional is now being printed and distributed in Uganda. In Uganda, good Christian materials are hard to find and expensive to buy. The Words of Hope devotional now provides Ugandans with theologically sound teaching. The booklets are available at a nominal fee that is charged to readers who can afford it and waived for those who cannot. The first print run of 10,000 copies was distributed by bus across the country in all 13 dioceses that …
A New Tradition
In 2016, Words of Hope Uganda established a new ministry in the Kup-Sabiny language, broadcasting holistic messages to the Sabiny people in the mountainous region of eastern Uganda. “Our program is just a baby,” says Rev. Paul Masaba, bishop of the Sebei Diocese. “But already indicators are so good! Very many people listen to the Word of the Lord now.” Accurate information doesn’t always reach these rural areas easily, and many people have held onto the same cultural practices for generations. …
Hope Restored Through Radio
Some days, radio is comforting background noise. Some days, radio saves a life.
So Many Languages, So Much Opportunity
Our work in Uganda is expanding to new areas of the country and new languages.
Radio for Women’s Health in Uganda
In Uganda, 6000 women die every year in pregnancy and childbirth. WOH Programmer Susan Olwa seeks to address these problems with her programs in the Luo language.